Subsidiary Notes as to the Introduction of Female Nursing into Military Hospitals in Peace and War
iv. That although the class must ever be a very mixed one, it is most
important to have a standard. Let it be necessary for every nurse to enter hospital with a good character, and to leave it on losing it. Deception, hypocrisy, and successful guilt will be found in hospitals, as elsewhere; but the class must be raised, and therefore improved, by requiring the condition of good character; though guilt may occasionally mask itself behind it.